vegetatiue, his actions are to nourish, to increase, and to engen∣der; and according to his power sensitiue, to see, to heare, to smell, to taste, to feel•…•…; and according to his power intellectiue, to vnderstand, to will, •…•…o nill, and such like.
The actions of the body are those that do immediately belong to some body or corporall accident, as to cut, to strike, to heat, to coole, to moisten, to drie, to make white, to make blacke, and such like.
Is there no other diuision of action?
Yes diuers, but such as doe rather belong to naturall Philo∣sophers, and to Diuines, then to Logicians: and therefore wee leaue to speake any further of them.
What doth this predicament comprehend?
All Nounes and Verbes of the actiue signification: as these Nounes, generation, corruption, augmentation, diminution, al∣teration, mouing from place to place, and such like: also all Verbes actiue, as, to engender, to corrupt, to increase, to dimi∣nish, to alter or change▪ and to moue from place to place, and such like Verbes of the actiue signification.
How many properties doe belong to action?
Two: First, to admit contrarietie, not simply, but per accidens, as to kindle, and to extinguish: secondly, to be more or lesse, and yet accidentally, as one fire to burne more, and another lesse, one water to coole more, and another lesse.